London Candidates Start Today

The 2013 Candidates Tournament starts today In London, with the winner earning the right to challenge current world champion Vishy Anand for the title.

The tournament is an 8-player double round-robin event, with 22-year old world #1 Magnus Carlsen the firm favourite to win. The venue is The IET at 2 Savoy Place, on the banks on London's river Thames, and the total prize fund is €510,000 (approx 665,000 USD).

All rounds start at 14:00 GMT, and the time control is 2 hours for 40 moves, then an extra 1 hour for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes with a 30 second increment to finish.

Reacties

@ CTPerl There are unlikely to be tie-break games. If the top two or more players score the same points, the tie will be decided by the following criteria, in order of priority:a) The results of the games between the players involved in the tie.If they are still tied:b) The total number of wins in the tournament of every player involved in the tie.If they are still tied:c) Sonneborn - Berger System.

If there is no clear winner with the above 3 criteria, there will be a special competition between the players who still remain tied after using the 3rd criteria (Sonneborn - Berger): after a new drawing of colors, each tied player will play two (2) tie-break games with the other tied opponent(s). The games shall be played using the electronic clock starting with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move.

Svidler and Kramnik repeated moves, or would have. I think they were actually 'forced' to do that (or whoever deviated would have to accept an inferior position). So yes.. I think they can do that. 30-move rule or not.

@ Balachandar - no, he didn't. When a game is over the arbiter places the kings on certain central squares in order to record the result of the game on the electronic boards that are used. If this isn't done properly, the last move can often seem to be some bizzare error.

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